Patric Dickinson

Patric Dickinson (26 December 1914, Nasirabad, India — 28 January 1994, Rye, East Sussex) was a British poet, playwright, and translator of Greek and Latin classic literature; Horace Gregory praised his 1961 verse translation of Virgil's Aeneid as "superlative" and "unsurpassable in clarity and vigor." Educated at St. Catharine's College in Cambridge, Dickinson produced several radio broadcast plays for BBC between 1942 and 1948, including Theseus and the Minotaur printed by Jonathan Cape in 1946. Dickinson had seven poetry collections published from 1960 to 1982 by Chatto & Windus in the "Phoenix Living Poets." A few of his works were set to music, including Living Silence choral/spoken word suite, composed by Lambert Williamson and premiered at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral in February 1951.